"Our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and ... our powers to visualize processes evolvi…"

"Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs"

"A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our o…"

"When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also t…"

"The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity, of mastering multitude and avoiding its bastard chaos as …"

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"

"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the pr…"

"Another two years later, in 1957, I married and Dutch marriage rites require you to state your profession and I state…"

"Automatic computers have now been with us for a quarter of a century. They have had a great impact on our society in …"

"For a number of years I have been familiar with the observation that the quality of programmers is a decreasing funct…"